You didn’t even try to link me to one.

Because, as I said, it’s not online.

But there are plenty of really similar tests that are as good or better. Since these are so easy to find online, I didn’t really think you’d need a link to one. If you ask for the time when you’re sitting at a computer, you’re lucky if you get a response at all.

Or maybe you meant these things, which have no relation to the WORDSUM variable referred to here. I don’t know if or where you can find those online.

I ask: “Where can I find an online Word Sum Puzzle?”, and I get a technical explanation of it.

You didn’t even try to link me to one.

If I ask what time it is, I don’t expect an explanation of how a clock works.

You CAN NOT KNOW, for example, that god does NOT exist. You believe it. Therefore, to believe without KNOWING is obviously a clear sign of lesser intelligence.

What a ridiculous argument…

To hold true something which is unproven to me clearly is a sign of lesser intelligence.

Race Score
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Yellow 866
White 816
Brown 683
Black 658
(State) (742)

One need only divide each score by 816 to obtain classical Stanford-Binet IQ,

Race IQ
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Yellow 106
White 100
Brown 84
Black 81
(State) (91)

That carefully racially unbiased CAPI results are remarkably heinously identically as racist as The Bell Curve is indisputable evidence of historic patriarchal White Protestant European oppression of Peoples of Colour. After all… nobody could be that stupid, certainly not as a group, not sustainedly, not consistently across all industrial, military, and educational testing. It must be a conspiracy to oppress.

WORDSUM is just a 10 word vocabulary test. Pretty much any decent vocabulary test will be about as informative, but not exactly commensurable with the GSS’s wordsum. I would guess they don’t publish the one they use, since that could introduce a bias if they used it after the publication (and they probably want to keep the words the same from year to year).

If you just wanted to gauge what the scores mean, then it might help to know that the overall mean is 6.00 with a standard deviation of 2.15, and that the mean for non-Hispanic whites is 6.41 with SD=1.90.

Also, Razib posted earlier on its correlation with full-scale IQ tests.

This sentence alone and the following one make it quite clear that this Paul you speak of is probably not so intelligent.

If someone is intelligent (in the academic sense), he tends to ask more questions of the world. In asking more questions of the world, he will invariably ask questions of his religion. By the very act of examining his own religion, he introduces the possibility that he will find it lacking and forsake it.

An unexamined religion is much less likely to be forsaken, since there is no impetus to change.

So, if one group has a greater opportunity to leave its religion than another, it should be of no surprise that fewer members of that group remain religious.

On a personal note, I have been successful academically and would also fall into the fundamentalist category. I have examined my religion, found fault with the interpretations I had been taught, re-examined the source texts, and discovered new ways of understanding my religion. My faith is the richer for these experiences. While it would be easier to be unquestioning of my religion, my faith would be much poorer as a result.

this may be. if so, if i was a believer, i’d think the variance in in intelligence would be something to explain. i.e., what is god’s plan?

Anco van Moolenbroek
PhD student, The Netherlands

Where can I find an online Word Sum Puzzle?